• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    regular reminder that stock buybacks were, at one point in time, practically (but not literally) illegal because it was considered stock manipulation and anyone that did it would have the heavy hand of government come down on them and start going for a probin.

    And, like seemingly everything else bad in the country, Stock buybacks were deregulated under Reagan leading to today.

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    5 months ago

    “we don’t have money for raises. You see we took that profit you helped us make and gave it back to ourselves. Good luck” - CEO Mary Barra

  • j4k3@lemmy.world
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    Uhhh China! They invested in technology when we were too corrupt and stupid to take them serious. Now we pull McCarthy bullshit to whine about it. Xi said they were going to invest in the technology in 2014. It is not government subsidies, it is research and development of new technologies. China is better at it because we put no effort into it. The US auto industry has always been a shit show of back patting fools in their own bubble while building absolute garbage. That is why Japanese cars dominate, next will be China.

  • Beaver@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Up the pressure Joe Biden. Make them pay for languishing on our future.